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#CatTravels: A long day in Costa Rica

By Catherine Toth Fox • August 17, 2012 • #CatTravels

It took us 15 hours by plane and another five by car to finally get to Malpais, the southernmost part of the Nicoya Peninsula.

This little town right on the Pacific Ocean started as a fishing and cattle-farming village and now has become a hot bed for surfing and adventure tourism. Just driving here you’ll see vans with surf boards, signs for surf schools and loads of ATVs clogging up the roadways.

It just took us awhile to get here.

Here’s what the first day — long day — of our trip looked like:

Ready, set, go

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We were packed and ready to roll! This would be our first trip as newlyweds — and our first to Central America.

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9 Comments

  • Reply Annoddah Dave August 17, 2012 at 1:30 pm

    CAT: I may be wrong but I see only one pix of the plane wing.

    • Reply Catherine Toth August 17, 2012 at 1:51 pm

      Eh? I’ll check…

  • Reply Catherine Toth August 17, 2012 at 1:52 pm

    OK, I fixed it! I had the wrong HTML code. SORRY!

  • Reply DIO August 17, 2012 at 3:41 pm

    Why is Frank Delima holding a sign that says Derek Staira? Is the “S” his middle initial?

  • Reply kat August 17, 2012 at 3:57 pm

    hope the rest of your trip will be smooth 🙂

  • Reply Annoddah Dave August 17, 2012 at 4:32 pm

    CAT: Thanks, neat pix. So, you just dialed 422-2222 and got Frank in Costa Rica?

  • Reply M August 17, 2012 at 5:07 pm

    Hello Cat!

    So exciting!

  • Reply David Jackson August 17, 2012 at 6:41 pm

    Cool trip so far, you must be dreading the drive back to the airport though. Love Latin America, So many good times there.

  • Reply J August 19, 2012 at 7:44 am

    Not if Coke Light will be the same, but Navy corpsmen used Coke to help with seasickness.

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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